In the heart of the Paris Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Solvay is exhibiting the prototype Solar Impulse 1, the solar plane which carried out a large number of missions, including a flight across America in 2013 without using a drop of fuel.

Solvay has agreed with Emery Oleochemicals and ERCA Group to buy their jointly-owned new alkoxylation facility, ERCA Emery Surfactant B.V., in the Moerdijk integrated industrial park in the Netherlands